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Electrolux layoffs begin (Unions killing another American business)
Omaha World-Herald ^ | January 20, 2011 | N/A

Posted on 01/20/2011 5:03:34 AM PST by NRG1973

The layoffs have begun at the Electrolux plant here as the plant begins the process of closing down by this spring.

United Autoworkers Local 442 Vice President Jerry Kloberdanz said the company posted the first stage of layoffs Jan. 7.

Kloberdanz said there are about 500 people working at the plant.

Electrolux, which makes washing machines and dryers, announced in 2009 that it would close the Webster City plant by the end of March.

(Excerpt) Read more at omaha.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: Iowa
KEYWORDS: economy; electrolux; layoffs; manufacturing; unions
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

Try paying drunken UAW goons ridiculous salaries to not work for a few years.

Then see if you will still claim that it’s not about unions.


21 posted on 01/20/2011 5:15:55 AM PST by iowamark
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To: 1rudeboy

Yes. Quite right.


22 posted on 01/20/2011 5:16:54 AM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: trisham

Right. Got that part from the title.

Still.

We really need to stop this death dance we are fighting with unions in America.

Literally, we are destroying our nation. Some seem, to actually want that.


23 posted on 01/20/2011 5:17:07 AM PST by Cringing Negativism Network (McCarthy was Right.)
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

Why are jobs being outsourced?

Because Mexicans, Chinese, & billions of others in the world will work for jobs that pay far less than they do in America while not demanding 30 days vacation, 10 days sick, being paid for time spent in the bathroom, and demanding that someone hired to put bolts on CANNOT also put the nuts on the bolts.

You want to keep jobs in America with the above rules in place then you must go all over the world and convince the rest of the world those rules are best for them also. Good luck with that one.

Sheese.


24 posted on 01/20/2011 5:17:24 AM PST by macquire
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To: iowamark

Could you please offer a bit more hyperbole?

Thanks in advance,

“Free trader”.


25 posted on 01/20/2011 5:18:15 AM PST by Cringing Negativism Network (McCarthy was Right.)
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To: circlecity
Little safety or environmental costs in Mexico. The workers live in cardboard shacks and work for so cheap you couldn't survive in the US.

I don't like unions, but this isn't the issue here.

26 posted on 01/20/2011 5:19:01 AM PST by redgolum ("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
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To: trisham

Swedish company with plants all over the world closes two in the U.S. and opens one in Mexico. Clearly, the blame lies at China’s feet.


27 posted on 01/20/2011 5:19:05 AM PST by 1rudeboy
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To: macquire

So you support America’s dismemberment at the hands of globalists?

Because that is what is happening right in front of your eyes, and you are so locked in old ways of thinking you cannot even recognize that our nation, faces the end of our every existence.

We need to start looking out for AMERICA FIRST.


28 posted on 01/20/2011 5:19:51 AM PST by Cringing Negativism Network (McCarthy was Right.)
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

Free Trade = Freedom. Why should anyone stop private individuals from doing business elsewhere. I better not catch you buy anything from China, because you’re a traitor, and don’t complain thats its the cheapest option available. Obviously when it came to your own pocket, you pick freedom, but when it came to someone else’s pocket, you want government to force them to buy American only


30 posted on 01/20/2011 5:21:22 AM PST by 4rcane
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

Unions are forcing companies to move in order to survive. They are corrupt, and unwilling to face the reality of life in this century.


31 posted on 01/20/2011 5:21:22 AM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

True, now let’s get back to supporting all of those bonuses this move makes possible.


32 posted on 01/20/2011 5:21:31 AM PST by org.whodat
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To: Cringing Negativism Network
We really need to stop this death dance we are fighting with unions in America.

No thanks. Kill the unions. All of them. Someone even needs to produce a map of where they are, and put crosshairs on them, and with extreme vitriol even.
33 posted on 01/20/2011 5:21:41 AM PST by ZX12R
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

It isn’t the business community fighting the death dance; it is the Unions not seeing the forest for the trees. They (Unions) must honestly believe that the rest of the world will follow their idea that 30 days vacations, 10 days sick, being paid for time spent in the bathroom, and not allowing someone hired to put bolts on cannot also put nuts on the bolts...

When we have several billion people working to produce the goods that just a billion can afford, expect the worst.

I suppose your solution is to take the wealth of the billion and give it to the several billion making the goods, but then who would buy the goods....or you raise the wages of the several billion to the point that not even the wealthier billion would buy the goods.....

Sheese.


34 posted on 01/20/2011 5:22:24 AM PST by macquire
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

Ask the unions to do that. They’d rather companies died than give up their control.


35 posted on 01/20/2011 5:23:10 AM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: NRG1973

I still use an Electrolux vacuum that my father bought in 1968. Works as well now as ever—amazing suction unmatched by any of the plastic Chinese crap in stores today.


36 posted on 01/20/2011 5:23:58 AM PST by montag813 (http://www.facebook.com/StandWithArizona)
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To: NRG1973

Another way to look at it is, 500 More families going to lose their homes, well a certain % will.


37 posted on 01/20/2011 5:24:00 AM PST by org.whodat
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

You’re under the wrong impression that this is a one way street. That China benefit while US suffer. When trade is done voluntarily, both side benefit


38 posted on 01/20/2011 5:24:02 AM PST by 4rcane
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To: 4rcane

There is no need for a pro-American trade policy to play favorites or pick winners and losers.

A single, across the board 100% import tariff on everything from everywhere, would do it. And the revenue would be exactly the same as America’s current tax confiscation - allowing a tariff to replace all other taxation. Income taxes. Sales taxes. Corporate taxes. Cap Gains taxes - all of it.

Come to think of it, that would be picking winners:

AMERICANS.


39 posted on 01/20/2011 5:24:22 AM PST by Cringing Negativism Network (McCarthy was Right.)
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To: NRG1973

Electrolux in MN has a largely Islamic night and possibly day shift with Somalis. They have prayer breaks to pray to Allah. I hope the company goes out of business. Their competitor GE (NBC/CNBC/MSNBC) loves China and Islam too.

Thank open borders and a news media and ALL of TV including Fox supporting Hussein and Islam.


40 posted on 01/20/2011 5:24:29 AM PST by Frantzie (Slaves do not have freedom only the illusion of freedom & their cable TV to drool at)
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